Gustav Grober

Gustav Gröber (born May 4, 1844 in Leipzig , † November 6, 1911 in Ruprechtsau near Strasbourg) was a German Romanist .

Life

He studied in Leipzig, completed his habilitation in Zurich in 1871 , became an associate professor there in 1873, and in 1874 accepted an appointment as a full professor at the University of Breslau . In 1880 he moved to Strasbourg . In conjunction with peers, he published the outline of Romance philology (1888–1906). In 1877 Gröber founded the magazine for Romance philology .

From 1900 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and from 1904 of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Gross floor plan

(Ed.) Grundriss der Romansische Philologie, 4 vols., Strasbourg 1888-1902 (only the first volume saw a 2nd edition; information on the 2nd edition in italics below)

First volume

History and task of Romance philology. Sources of Romance philology and their treatment. Romance Linguistics. Register, Strasbourg 1888, 853 pages ; 2nd edition, 1904-1906, 1093 pages

- History of Romance Philology (Gustav Gröber) 1-139; 1-185
- Task and structure of Romance philology (Gustav Gröber) 140-156; 186-202
- The written sources with 4 tables (Wilhelm Schum [1846-1892]) 157-196; (revised by Harry Bresslau ) 205-253
- The oral sources (Gustav Gröber) 197-208; 254-266
- Methodology and tasks of linguistic research (Gustav Gröber) 209-250; 267-317
- Methodology of Philological Research ( Adolf Tobler ) 251-282; 318-360
- Methodology of research on the history of literature (Adolf Tobler) 361-368
- Celtic language ( Ernst Windisch ) 283-312; 371-404
- The Basques and the Iberians ( Georg Gerland ) 313-334; 405-430
- The Italian languages ( Wilhelm Deecke ) 335-350; (and Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke ) 431-450
- The Latin language in the Romance countries ( Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke ) 351-382; 451-497
- Romans and Teutons in their interrelationships ( Friedrich Kluge ) 383-397; 498-514
- The Arabic language in the Romance countries (Christian Friedrich Seybold [1859-1921]) 398-405; 515-523
- The non-Latin elements in Romanian ( Moses Gaster ) 406-414; ( Kristian Sandfeld Jensen ) 524-534
- The Romance languages. Your classification and external history (Gustav Gröber) 415-437; 535-563
- The Romanian Language ( Hariton Tiktin ) 438-460; 564-607
- The Rhaeto-Romanic dialects ( Theodor Gartner ) 461-488; 608-636
- The Italian language ( Francesco D'Ovidio and Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke ) 489-560; 637-711
- The French and Provencal languages and their dialects ( Hermann Suchier ) 561-668; 712-840
- Catalan ( Alfred Morel-Fatio ) 669-688; (and Jean-Joseph Saroïhandy ) 841-877
- The Spanish Language ( Gottfried Baist ) 689-714; 878-915
- The Portuguese Language ( Jules Cornu ) 715-803; 916-1037
- The Latin elements in Albanian ( Gustav Meyer ) 804-822; (revised by Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke ) 1038-1058
- Name, subject and word registers 823-853; 1059-1093

Second volume

1st section, Strasbourg 1902, 1286 pages
- II. Romance language art: Romance verse theory ( Edmund Stengel ) 1–96
- III. Romance literary history:
  - A. Overview of Latin Literature (Gustav Gröber) 97–432
  - B. The literary history of the Romance peoples:
    - 1. French literature (Gustav Gröber) 433–1247
- Register 1251-1286

2nd section, Strasbourg 1897, 496 pages
- - The literatures of the Romance peoples:
    - 2. Provencal literature ( Albert Stimming ) 1–69
    - 3. Catalan Literature ( Alfred Morel-Fatio ) 70–128
    - 4. History of Portuguese Literature ( Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos and Teófilo Braga ) 129-382 (the last 35 pages are from Braga)
    - 5. Spanish literature ( Gottfried Baist ) 383–466
- Register 467-496

3rd section, Strasbourg 1901, 603 pages

- - The literatures of the Romance peoples:
    - 6. Italian Literature ( Tommaso Casini ) 1–217
    - 7. Romansh literature ( Caspar Decurtins ) 218–261
    - 8. Romanian Literature ( Moses Gaster ) 262-428
- IV. Frontier sciences: On the history of the Romance peoples
  - A. On the Romanesque history of states ( Harry Bresslau ) 431–515
  - B. On the Romanesque Cultural History ( Alwin Schultz ) 516–532
  - C. On Romanesque Art History ( Alwin Schultz ) 533–549
  - D. On the history of science of the Roman peoples ( Wilhelm Windelband ) 550-578
- Register 579-603

literature

Grosser, Gustav. In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . Volume 8, Leipzig 1907, p. 351.
Theodor Elwert: Gröber, Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 108 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Gustav Gröber - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Gustav Gröber in the catalog of the German National Library
Gustav Groeber Collection
Overview of Gustav Gröber's courses at the University of Zurich (summer semester 1871 to winter semester 1873)

Individual evidence

^ Members of the previous academies. Gustav Grober. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 31, 2015 .

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 97.

personal data
SURNAME	Grosser, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 4, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig , Germany
DATE OF DEATH	November 6, 1911
Place of death	Ruprechtsau near Strasbourg

[1] Members of the previous academies. Gustav Grober. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 31, 2015 .

[2] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 97.